Is queueing really so fun?

My insurance agent was so kind to call me this morning, telling me HDB released new flats in established estates under the WIS exercise today. Was still refreshing the HDB website but no time to look at it until she called. Xris told me that there was some news leak or so, and some people already started queueing up days ago. There were also people who passed by and saw the queue then joined in. Heard a fight broke out and the police had to come in. I really dun understand Singaporeans. Is queueing really so fun and applying for flats just like buying bread? No wonder people like us who wants to apply for a new flat genuinely are unable to do so due to the high demand. Really ridiculous, hope the government is able to do something about it. Good thing the locations weren't really where we wanted so perhaps no loss afterall.

Remember the time of the Hello Kitty craze? It was then that kiasu Singaporeans started have this bad habit of queueing overnight. Some areas even had fights breaking out and the whole sale was cancelled for that branch Served them right! Weird thing was that after that, there wasn't much enthusiasm for other toys at Mac. Even another Hello Kitty range launched din receive good responses. Perhaps its a trend, its more fun fighting with others. "No one queue, I also not interested".

Even in everyday lives, you see people queueing up. There will always be someone queueing up early in the morning outside the clinics when they will only be opened like 1-2 hrs later. This is worse in Polyclinics I heard, but haven't got chance to see it myself. I would rather spend more on GP then to go queue up and takes forever (at least 1/2 day gone) to see the doctor. Heard that some doctors even anyhow prescribe medicine. Come on people, get a life la, if you can afford to see GP, dun spoil market and fight with poorer people.

I even saw once, students queueing up at Junction 8 coz their idol was going to appear in 5 days' time. Can you imagine???? I remembered it was a Tuesday when I saw gates set up for people to queue and there were some students there already settled down, picnic-like in the queue. I was still wondering what was that for when I saw a poster saying some idol coming in on Sunday. I almost fainted ok... Later realised that on the actual day, the queue was all the way to near the Bishan swimming pool is, that is like ermm... go see the map la... dunno how to estimate. Really must give these people award for their patience in queueing up!!!

"This is to award Mr So & So for having the patience to queue up for a total of 120 hrs for the event held last week. With that, you have won yourself a priority queue in our next organised event! Congratulations!!"

Now, that's going to be quite interesting...